End of 2016 update on PyKF5 bindings

[Stephen Kelly]

Hi Shaheed,

That's great, thanks for keeping us up to date with your progress! Looking 
forward to reviewing it.

Thanks,

Steve.


Shaheed Haque wrote:

> Hi Steve,
> 
> FWIW, I have rebased [1], debugged, bulk tested, and squashed to the
> point where I can focus on adding to the unit tests for the new
> functionality [2].
> 
> Basically, things took longer than expected because when I rebased, I
> picked up your fix for the regression around reporting errors from the
> clang compiler. That resulted in errors showing that I had some messed
> up paths...and when I fixed that, all sort of objects were no longer
> "int"s (because they were now being understood by clang :-)). The flip
> side of that is of course that the sip_generator can now correctly
> handle quite a bit more syntax! I'll be adding some unit tests for
> that stuff too.
> 
> You can see the WIP at
> https://github.com/ShaheedHaque/extra-cmake-modules/tree/KDE_master_rebase_with_module_separation
> (but please don't attempt to merge anything yet).
> 
> More anon.
> 
> Thanks, Shaheed
> 
> [1] To all-but-the-tip of master, that is your
> 3e6eb0562e5fd3831d66db4720c67cc950b3536c.
> [2] As well as incorporating your feedback about the second
> declaration thing and so on.
> 
> On 22 January 2017 at 15:04, Shaheed Haque <srhaque at theiet.org> wrote:
>> I see the point. I'll take another look...
>>
>> On 22 January 2017 at 12:25, Stephen Kelly <steveire at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Shaheed Haque wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hi Steve,
>>> >
>>> > I've tested that this change does not appear to break things. Full
>>> > details, including the testing, in
>>> > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/129763/. Kindly review.
>>>
>>> Hi Shaheed,
>>>
>>> Source files in kcoreaddons are in
>>>
>>>  util/kuser.h
>>>
>>> for example and then get installed to
>>>
>>>  include/KF5/KCoreAddons/kuser.h
>>>
>>> for example.
>>>
>>> Currently the buildsystem adds both
>>>
>>>  include/KF5/KCoreAddons
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>>  include/KF5
>>>
>>> to the include directories when a consumer users KCoreAddons. That means
>>> that a consumer can write either
>>>
>>>  #include <kuser.h>
>>>
>>>  (because of the include/KF5/KCoreAddons)
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>>  #include <KCoreAddons/kuser.h>
>>>
>>>  (because of the include/KF5)
>>>
>>>
>>> I consider the former legacy and I think we should change it to require
>>> the
>>> module name for KF6.
>>>
>>> So, the Sip file needs to know to process
>>>
>>>  util/kuser.h
>>>
>>> but it needs to generate
>>>
>>>  %TypeHeaderCode
>>>  #include <KCoreAddons/kuser.h>
>>>  %End
>>>
>>>
>>> That is why the python interface requires specifying both.
>>>
>>> It is true that currently the CMake module/function only requires one of
>>> those, and it is the cmake function that makes the assumption that using
>>> basename is all that is needed. That is only because the CMake API for
>>> mappings or pairs like that is inconvenient. I do plan on implementing
>>> it though eventually. Other libraries (outside of KF5) do require
>>> specifying the directory name like that in includes, so it is a
>>> requirement anyway.
>>>
>>> The assumption that the two are related by exactly a call to basename
>>> should
>>> not be in the python code/interface.
>>>
>>> Does that make sense?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Steve.
>>
>>